(coll.) mother's mother; maternal grandmother

husband's mother; mother-in-law; grandma

old woman (at times contemptuous)

witch; sorceress; female shaman

granny; mother-in-law

meddling woman; nosy parker (Cantonese)

(bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)

tomboy

(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father; (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt

wealthy woman

Shiva (Hindu deity)

concubine; mistress; (dialect) woman

midwife

husband's parents; parents-in-law; (dialect) a couple; husband and wife

Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam

aunt by marriage; husband's aunt; husband's father's younger brother's wife

great-grandmother

grandfather's sister; sister of a woman's father-in-law

female matchmaker

(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life; (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind

(dialect) mother-in-law; (house)wife

hot-water bottle

midwife (old term)

grandmother's brother's wife

Caucasian woman (Cantonese)

(dialect) hen; prostitute; (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])

(dialect) cockroach

midwife who induces labor

primary wife

female matchmaker

henpecked; to be under one's wife's thumb

midwife

midwife

housewife (jocular); female housekeeper of a higher rank (old); busybody

faded old woman

women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)

lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom); fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor; what goes around comes around

see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2]

(lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb); (fig.) something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it